Christmas Placemats

This year, our Christmas art project was to make placemats.  It's fairly easy and the kids loved it.  I used one of our kids store bought placemats as a template and traced it out on a large roll of white paper that we had.  (Our neighbor from up in Roc used to work in an icecream plant and gave me a couple of rolls of paper. - Score for art projects!)  I had the kids draw Christmas themed pictures.  I printed up a picture of them on regular paper and cut it out in a circle.  I drew an ornament on their paper and placed their pic in the center.  The kids colored all around it. I then used a roll of clear contact paper and covered it.  And, Wa-la a Christmas placemat.

K did all the artwork himself.  He finally learned how to draw a star on his own, and it shows. =)

Gt needed me to outline the trees, but the rest of the art is his.  Notice the train at the bottom of the tree.  He was very proud of that.

Gv wanted to make sure that every last square inch of his placemat was covered.  I say, he succeeded!

C's is of a few of her favorite things.  Including: a snowman, a Christmas tree, one of the girls I babysit and 2 DS games.